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A “barber of Seville;” a knavish valet who makes his master his tool. (Molière: Les Fourberies de Scapin.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.